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Abre nuevo Mariposario y Tour de Miel en Boquete

A new butterfly garden in the district of Boquete, Chiriqui Province, has become a point of attraction sumo and interest to visitors who find a new alternative among various options for adventure tourism, coffee and other trends as a tour of bees and honey.The pleasant climate and biodiversity that has Boquete for years has attracted hundreds of foreigners, some of whom have made their permanent home, as Emily Haworth, Irish botany profession and owner of the farm where the butterfly is located, the only Boquete green tourism oriented teaching and learning.Fascinated by flowers, plants and gastronomy, Emily first began in Beekeeping as a hobby and was inspired by the taste of boqueteña honey «amazing, different, good quality and very healthy» by trees and clean and medicinal plants free of chemicals that are in place. «Honey Panama is unique in the world and this is only possible when there is biodiversity, which is attracting more and more tourists,» emphasizes backed by his experience working hives of native bees.At present, it has planned to make a Museum of Apiculture, with the support of her friend Nixsa Gnaegi Rivers, rector of the Technological University Oteima, who donated a smoker bees that belonged to his father, Swiss engineer Hermann Gnaegi, considered the first beekeeper in Panama modern technology bring Switzerland in 1938.Among the plans for the museum, with the missing mutual friend Irish engineer and partner in environmental projects Ralph Dessau, the idea of building a butterfly on this site pollinators, which seeks to promote the support of the Authority Tourism Panama, the Technological University Oteima, mayor of Boquete and a team of volunteers.